Heather A. Hathaway Miranda, M.A. is a well-traveled, highly articulate servant leader with a passion to empower underserved communities through education rooted in advocacy efforts to raise consciousness about multi-layered issues locally, nationally, and internationally. She has over 25 years of professional experience in many diverse roles, including as a: bilingual/bicultural educator & researcher, motivational speaker, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion consultant, racial healing practitioner, Spanish high school teacher, and a professor of Latina/o/x Studies, Spanish, Child Development, Family Studies, & Education. She is a self-taught photographer, a survivor of domestic violence, former caregiver to a parent who died from cancer, and mother of an 8-year-old. Heather recently was married on ABC's Good Morning America and is now a proud military spouse to an Army officer who has served 30 years. She enjoys mentoring, taking road trips, and planting seeds for positive change.